Rupert Pupkin has been posting many other film fan's favorite underrated horror movies. Some of the titles brought me back to a time when I was around 13-14 and my friends and I would rent crappy horror VHS tapes from the video store. There are 5 Wednesdays this October, and every Wednesday I'm going to post musings on a different horror movie. These are by no means great movies, in fact, all of them are pretty terrible, but they stick with me for one reason or another.
*My family actually owned all three of the original Omen movies. So I had already seen them. When I came across this, I was like "Oh man, I wonder if my sister knows about this?" Well she did, and it was avoided for a reason.
*It's like someone who had just got done watching movies like The Exorcist, Bad Seed, and The Poltergeist and was like "little girls are so much scarier than little boys!" "Let's make an Omen movie about a girl!"
*The acting in this is atrocious, especially the girl. I know when children are in sensitive movies, the director sometimes will have them shoot things out of sequence so that they are not exposed to anything bad, or they give them a totally made up story line to follow instead. I felt like they didn't do any of that here. They just told the girl to "go stand over there." and shot.
*Asia Vieira, who plays little Delia was in Flash Forward, if you remember that show.
*I'm still not 100% sure what went on in the jumbled mess that was this movie's ending.
Have you seen The Omen IV: The Awakening? What did you think?
Rupert Pupkin has been posting many other film fan's favorite underrated horror movies. Some of the titles brought me back to a time when I was around 13-14 and my friends and I would rent crappy horror VHS tapes from the video store. There are 5 Wednesdays this October, and every Wednesday I'm going to post musings on a different horror movie. These are by no means great movies, in fact, all of them are pretty terrible, but they stick with me for one reason or another.
*To put it lightly, this movie scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it. I still remember lying to my friend "no, it didn't scare me" after we watched it, then riding my bike home like a bat out of hell.
*I also remember we watched this and Candyman on the same day, but that's legitimately one of my favorite horror movies, so it doesn't get a spot on my bad horror Wednesdays.
*They actually made quite a few more of these, some stream instant on Netflix. I haven't watched the sequels, but the original is almost kind of amusing to me now. Creepy, but amusing.
*Another fun fact? There's actually another movie called The Puppetmaster that was released in 1993, whereas this one was released in 1989. The other is a dub, they seem somewhat similar, but I've never seen the later one.
*Seriously though, puppets are fucking creepy.
Have you see Puppet Master? What did you think?
Rupert Pupkin has been posting many other film fan's favorite underrated horror movies. Some of the titles brought me back to a time when I was around 13-14 and my friends and I would rent crappy horror VHS tapes from the video store. There are 5 Wednesdays this October, and every Wednesday I'm going to post musings on a different horror movie. These are by no means great movies, in fact, all of them are pretty terrible, but they stick with me for one reason or another.
*Most people talk about Troll 2 as being one of the worst movies they've ever seen. I've actually never seen Troll 2. (Though I did see the documentary Best Worst Movie) I always remember the original.
*Whenever I see a Hardees, I just keep thinking of this little girl running around screaming "WORKS BURGER!!!"
*The lead character's name is Harry Potter, how fucking perfect is that?
*Wendy Anne apparently only owned overalls.
*Julia Louise Dreyfus is in this, and she is only wearing a plant. That's pretty funny.
*I actually taped this movie when it came on TV once, and labeled it A Troll In Central Park after that stupid cartoon so my parents wouldn't know I taped it. That was all for nothing because when they did find out, they didn't even give a shit.
Have you seen Troll? What did you think?
Rupert Pupkin has been posting many other film fan's favorite underrated horror movies. Some of the titles brought me back to a time when I was around 13-14 and my friends and I would rent crappy horror VHS tapes from the video store. There are 5 Wednesdays this October, and every Wednesday I'm going to post musings on a different horror movie. These are by no means great movies, in fact, all of them are pretty terrible, but they stick with me for one reason or another.
*This movie wasn't called 'Daddy's Deadly Darling' when I watched it. It was called 'Pigs." I'm still unsure which title is more widely used nowadays.
*For a long time, I swear no one believed me when I told them this movie existing. (Probably because of the title change) I always referred to it as 'Pigs' and I was pretty thrown off by the thought of little Wilburs and Porkys eating people.
*When I eventually came across this movie again when I was older, I realized there was a ton of sexual references that went way over my head. The entire plot is basically about a woman escaped her sexually abusive father. I don't know how I missed all of that.
*I don't know if I would call Pigs "campy," I'd surely call it "gross." It's definitely not something I'd ever watch again out of curiosity, but the two times I did watch it stay with me well enough.
Have you seen Pigs? What did you think?
Rupert Pupkin has been posting many other film fan's favorite underrated horror movies. Some of the titles brought me back to a time when I was around 13-14 and my friends and I would rent crappy horror VHS tapes from the video store. There are 5 Wednesdays this October, and every Wednesday I'm going to post musings on a different horror movie. These are by no means great movies, in fact, all of them are pretty terrible, but they stick with me for one reason or another.
*The documentary Blackfish actually used a short scene from Orca in part of their film. It's probably two seconds in length, but it's the only part of that movie where I actually laughed.
*Orca was like Luciano Vincenzoni's answer to Jaws. Some boaters kill an orca's pregnant mate, and that orca understandably loses his shit and starts terrorizing said boaters.
*When you think about just how intelligent orcas really are, I can kind of almost see this happening. Not in the over the top murderous way this movie played it out, but when young orcas are captured in the wild, it was common for the rest of the orca's pod to swim after them, even once they were on the ground, they followed in the sea as the trucks carrying them drove down the road.
*I don't want to make this an anti orca captivity rant, I already did that in my Blackfish review, (although admit it. You could totally see Tilikum going on a rampage like this, right?) so let's get back to this crazy ass movie.
*The first time I saw it was actually on TV, and it was right on the part where the baby orca fetus falls out of its slain mother. (ew) I was kind of flabbergasted, because seriously, who thinks of this shit?
*Orca vs Jaws actually became an ongoing debate between my friends and I. We watched our tapes of these movies back to back many times and mused on who would win in a fight. (I always said Jaws, but in reality, an Orca would probably win.)
Have you seen Orca? What are your thoughts?
